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Choosing to be single is neither a "good" choice, nor a "bad" choice. In fact, the really critical issues that determine life happiness are only indirectly related to whether one chooses to marry (or live in a committed romantic relationship). For almost everyone, happiness in life depends upon having a dependable and compassionate mutual support network. While a good marriage can be the cornerstone of such a support network, a single person can also develop a support network that equals or surpasses the level of mutual support present in a typical marriage. Let the following quotes and sayings give you a variety of perspectives on love, marriage, friendship, and mutual support.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous.
- Rabindranath Tagore
If you are single, eliminate the thought that something is lacking, and just live each day joyfully.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Language... has created the word "loneliness" to express the pain of being alone.
And it has created the word "solitude" to express the glory of being alone.
- Paul Tillich
I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
- Henry David Thoreau
It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.
- George Washington
The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.
- Henry David Thoreau
The world is perfect.
As you question your mind, this becomes more and more obvious.
Mind changes, and as a result, the world changes.
A clear mind heals everything that needs to be healed.
It can never be fooled into believing that there is one speck out of order.
- Byron Katie
CALM IN CHAOS
In the midst of the flurry - clarity.
In the midst of the storm - calm.
In the midst of divided interests - certainty.
In the many roads - a certain choice.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Take to heart these quotes on the importance of having a mutual support network, whether you are single or not...
A dream you dream alone is only a dream.
A dream you dream together becomes reality.
- John Lennon
Individually, we are one drop.
Together, we are an ocean.
- Ryunosuke Satoro
It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.
- Napoleon Hill
The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
-
Helen Keller
If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
- Mother Teresa
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
There are some problems with romance and marriage - as shown in these funny quotes...
True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
A wedding is just like a funeral except that you get to smell your own flowers.
- Grace Hansen
One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.
- Oscar Wilde
Women marry men hoping they will change.
Men marry women hoping they will not.
- Albert Einstein
Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.
-
Charles Caleb Colton
Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?
- H. L. Mencken
Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?
- Barbra Streisand
Marriage is the chief cause of divorce.
- Groucho Marx
You never really know a man until you have divorced him.
-
Zsa Zsa Gabor
If you are single, you still need to love and be loved...
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Love one another but make not a bond of love.
Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
- Khalil Gibran
Where There is Love, Nothing is Missing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
As we work to create light for others, we naturally light our own way.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Love that does not renew itself every day becomes a habit and in turn a slavery.
- Khalil Gibran
Where there is great love there are always miracles.
- Willa Cather
Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Being single requires self confidence and a strong sense of personal identity...
Always be a first-rate version of yourself,
instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
- Judy Garland
To thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day,
is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
- Theodore H. White
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
-
Anais Nin
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
- Helen Keller
We don't stop playing because we grow old;
we grow old because we stop playing.
- George Bernard Shaw
Laugh when you can,
apologize when you should,
and let go of what you can't change.
Life's too short to be anything... but happy.
- Anonymous
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.
-
Marie Curie
When one door of happiness closes, another opens,
but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
- Helen Keller
Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.
- Raymond Lindquist
You grow up the day you have your first real laugh - at yourself.
- Ethel Barrymore
Courage doesn't always roar.
Sometimes courage is the quiet voice
at the end of the day saying,
"I will try again tomorrow."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Smile.
Today would be a wonderful day not to take life so seriously.
Today may end up the way you prefer - and it may not.
Happiness is not about being a winner -
it's about being gentle with life -
being gentle with yourself.
Let life be a dance,
and choose the kind of dance you want for today -
perhaps a gentle loving dance.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Being single and happy depends upon having a network of great friends...
It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich
I get by with a little help from my friends.
- John Lennon
Friends are like bras: close to your heart and there for support.
- Anonymous
A friend is someone who knows all about you and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.
-
Mark Twain
A friend is someone who understands my past, believes in my future, and accepts me just the way I am.
- Anonymous
A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.
- Anonymous
Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.
- Marianne Williamson
A true friend is the one who walks in when others walk out.
- Walter Winchell
Friends share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle and tender hand.
- Henri Nouwen
Your greatest gift to others is to be happy and to radiate your happiness to the entire world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Live with intention.
Walk to the edge.
Listen hard.
Practice wellness.
Play with abandon.
Laugh.
Choose with no regret.
Appreciate your friends.
Continue to learn.
Do what you love.
Live as if this is all there is.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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